The Trump administration is proposing sweeping changes to the rules governing the 2030 US Census, including a requirement that could make questions about biological sex mandatory for respondents, a change critics say could effectively force transgender people to disclose their trans status to the federal government.

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    6 days ago

    Anatomy and hormones you produce, yes. Injecting yourself with massive amounts of synthetic testosterone or estrogen isn’t part of your biological sex. Just mark whatever the hell you want, it’s a stupid survey. If you need it to validate yourself you have a lot bigger problems.

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      Synthesis is not abiological. On the contrary, synthesis implies that the formation of a substance was intended by a biological organism.

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        Sure but it wasn’t your biology.

        Personally I don’t think they’d be able to tell the difference between someone not responding and a response being lost in the mail. The USPS is notoriously unreliable and should be privatized, donchaknow.

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          They send people to your address if they don’t get a response, since its based off addresses and not people.

          I had multiple people show up multiple times the last time we had a census cuz I didn’t want to deal with it. It doesn’t just go away.

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      So, I’m not a male because my testicles just decided to stop producing testosterone, so I have to supplement it?